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["Jim Ray" <jim AT neuse.net>]

if you really want the domain in question and netsol says they can get
it for $69, pay 'em.  domain name has nothing to do with IP address.
that's where the name servers come into play.  now, my favorite hosting
palce with nameservers is Portbridge http://www.portbridge.com.  they
can take care of providing the IP address and getting your site back
online for around $10/mon.

as long as you have the data from the wayback machine, you are golden.
otherwise, you're looking at designing a brochureware site that can be
done by any of a number of places for whatever the going rate is ($100 a
page?  i dunno).

good luck!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beckett [mailto:thomas AT tbeckett.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 3:36 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: [internetworkers] domain name question
> 
> 
> Deborah and I are trying to help out friends who lost their website. 
> These folks paid some cousin's-sister's-friend to set up a simple 
> brochure site for their farm a couple years ago.  Apparently 
> a divorce 
> and bad blood ensued and said designer is no longer reachable.
> 
> The domain name expired last month and the site disappeared with it. 
> Some of the content appears on the Wayback Machine, thankfully. 
> Presumeably the content is still on the (free) server someplace, but 
> these folks don't know who the host is and we can't find 
> anything about 
> it.
> 
> We tried to re-register the domain name, and PairNIC says it is 
> unavailable.  Netsol's whois says it is expired but 
> unavailable, but we 
> can "snapback" order it for just $69/year.  Apparently the previous 
> registrar was joker.com.  Not a confidence-inspiring name.  Joker's 
> whois says "Name Server: NOT-RENEWED.JOKER.COM".
> 
> Questions:
> 
> - Is there a way to find the IP address for a 
> recently-expired domain name?
> 
> - How do we get the domain name out of DNS limbo?
> 
> All sage advice will be much appreciated.
> 
> TaB
> 
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